Advice,
What'er you have to say, my friend,
Whether witty, or grave or gay,
Condense as mach as ever you oan,
Ard say in the readiest way;
And whether you speak of rural affairs,
Or particular things in town,
Just a word of friendly advice
Boil vour MS, down.
For if you go spluttering over a page
When a couple of lines will do,
Your butter is spread so much, you see,
That the bread shows plainly through;
So that, when you have a story to tell,
And would like a little renown,
To make quite sure of your wish, my friend,
Bail your MS, down,
Daniel Gray.
BE, J. HOLLAND'S BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF 8
FATHER,
I¥ 1 shall ever win the home in heaven,
For whose sweet rest 1 humbly hope and pray,
In the great company of the forgiven
I shall figure to find old Daniel Gray
I knew him well; in
better ;
For my young eves oft
And saw how meekly from the orvstal letter
He drank the life of his beloved Lond,
trath, few Knew
Vid Danial Gray was not a man who lifted
On ready words his freight of gratitude ;
Nor was he called among the gifted
In the prayer meetings of his neighborhood.
He had a few old-fashioned words and phrases,
Linked in with sacred text and Sunday rhymes;
And I suppose that in his prayers and graces,
I've heard them all at least a thousand times
an
wal
1 see him now--his form, his face, his motions,
His homespun habit and his silver hair -
And hear the language of his trite devotions
ohair,
1 can remember how the sentence sounded,
* Help ux oh, Lond to pray, and aot to faint I”
And how the
rounded
The loftier as)
“oongquering and to conguer
rations of the saint.
He had some notions that did not
him ;
He never kissed his children-
And finest scene
him
Loss than a horseshoe
improve
80 thoy say
2 or rarest flowers would move
wipk %
rickad up in
the way.
He had a hearty hatred of oppression,
And righteous word for sin of every kind ;
Alas, that the transgressor and transgression
Were linked so closely in his honest mind !
He could see nanght but vanity in beauty,
And naught but weakness in a fond caress,
And pitied men whose views of Christian duty
Allowed indulgence in such foolishness.
3
Xot there were k 3
Aud I am old that wh
Not nature's
him
From his fond v gils at th
worn
LOTS
WE
need nor
le Charley,
hair,
And on his breast a rosabu
And guessed, i
there,
1 gat
d gat
hered early,
i fearini m
of falling,
id Daniel was always in his place,
A practi reamear ;
¢, unlooked-for
the
nd in lieaven, great Re-
realth sone golden day.
pationt eye
alled him
long garnered up for
ladeemer ¢ to inherit
And his |
The he
him.
aven of
} heaven,
¥ hope and pray,
von
VOLUME XV,
HKditor and
PA.,
2.00
in Advance.
26, 1882,
NUMBER 4.
[to the actualities of the present by a
sweet voice at his elbow inquiring difti
dently, *‘ Is this seat engaged ¥
Turning sharply, he saw a dignitied
| but youthful lady, with a face like that
jof one of Raphael's Madonnas, His
impressible heart paid her homage at
{ once, and he was about to spring to his
{ feet with spontaneous politencss, when
| the pleasurable emotion was checked by
{one of dismay. She held in her arms
a baby—well dressed, neat, chubby,
| bright, and, to a parental eve, a cherub
{of a child; to Mr, J. Templeton Ward,
| his pet aversion andepeculiar horror,
He looked at the child with an ex
| pression of intense disapprobation. “|
{ think you will be more comfortable at
| the other end of the car,” he remarked,
| slowly raising his eveglasses and sur
| veying the perspective of crowded
| seats,
“ I will try another car,” replied the
| lady, with quiet dignity.
{ Mr. Templeton Ward's good breed. |
{ ing asserted itself. “Indeed, madam, !
; I had not observed that there were no
Pray do not imagine me
| so egregiously selfish ;" and the little
{ lady was quickly seated at his vis-a-vis,
{ For some time the baby condneted |
itsalf in an exemplary manner, drum-
| ming on the window-pane and watoh- |
ing the rapidly whirling landscape, and |
{ Mr. Templeton Ward had time to ob
| serve that the lady was dressed in that |
! alleviated mourning ®hich allows cer- |
| tain concessions to fashion and becom- |
{ ingness in the toleration of white at |
| the throat and wrists, and solitaire
| pearls in either ear,
{ “You have a fine little boy, madam.”
| The lady smiled. “She is a very |
| good baby.”
| Mr. Ward was momentarily confused.
{ “Your little danghter resembles yon
| strikingly,” he remarked.
Again the rarely sweet smile flickered |
| across the lady's lips. |
“You could not compliment me in a
| more gratifying manner,” she replied.
{ He turned to the baby and endeav
{ored to interest it in an exhibition of
{ his watch and seals.
*What is her name?” he asked,
hoping that the reply might involve
that of the mother.
“We call her Dimple. Don't you!
think a baby the most delicions thing |
in the whole world ?’ {
“Well, no, it had never cccarred to
me in that light before, bunt you know
quaintance with Miss Dimple.”
“You could not help liking her. She
never cries; she is absolutely angelic.” |
Mr. Ward was on the point of re-
warking, “I said she resembled von,”
but he checked himself, they were not
sufficiently intimate vet for flattery,
The conversation became impersonal,
and drifted through a wide range of sub-
jects, Mr. Templeton Ward becoming |
more and more in erested in his travel- |
ing companion, and quite ignoring the
presence of the baby. This young per- |
son at last became fidgety and even
Cross,
“The precious infant!”
“wt
mi
Y.: .
exc. aimed
1 Gray.
the lady. ‘How forgetful I am! She
A LOST BABY. |
Mr. Jonathen T. Ward, or as his
card mc ra mcdernly expressed it, “J. |
Templeton Ward, Jr,” looked like a
man supremely satisfied with his for-
tune and himself,
He had just rceoived a partienlarly
gratiiving letter from his sister in New
York, calling him to the city on a flat-
tering <rrapd, and as he entered the
cars this pleasant October morning the
univir:e seemed irradiated with his own
private sense of happiness, He dropped
nis hand bsg, cane and light overcoat
carelessly in the vacant corners, and
thus comforiably extended’ he found
himself able to contemplate his ple-
beian and more crowded neighbors with
vrbane condescension.
Alter a few moments his fingers in-
stinctively sought an inner pocket, and
be re-read the letter which had so con-
tributed to his self-gratulation. It was
from his favorite sister Rose, who had
married Henry Molineux, a wealthy
broker, snd whose happy martied life
had caused no diminution in her home
affeciion. The Molineux were, in their
way, vey grand people, grander than
the Waras, for they counted larger store
of shekels and lands and antique heir-
looms, and Rose's alliance had been
fully approved by her brother. Rose
herself was a bit of a match-maker, and
had long cherished a dream of a double
connection between the two families by
the marriage of her brother with her
husband's sister, Miss Winifred Moli-
nenx. Unfortunately for her plans,
shortly after her own wedding her hus-
band’s family had sailed for Europa, re-
maining abroad four years, and the ob-
jects of Lier romantic rchemes had never
met, Very deftly, however, Miss Rose
Molineux had managed her cards, keep-
ing up Miss Winifred’s interest in the
unknown paragon by means of shrewd
allusions and items of interest, but
never waxing sufficiently enthusiastic to
alarm the shy girl with apprehensions
of a matrimonial pitfall arranged for
her unsuspecting feet. With her brother
Mrs. Molin.ux’s maneavers hed been
less strategic and delicate. The mat-
ter had been frankly discussed between
them, and Mr. J, Templeton Ward sac-
knowledged himself prepared to become
Miss Winifred's willing slave at first
sight. Indeed, he nearly persuaded
himself that he was alreadyjin love with
her, and he brooded over his sister's
letter with all the benign serenity of an
accepted lover,
“Dear Templeton ” (wrote Mrs. Moli.
neux),“ Henry's father and mother have
at length returned from Europe, and
have agreed to let me have Winifred
for the winter. I want you to drop
everything else and devote yourself to
us, to escort Winifred to all the ex-
hibitions, symphony rehearsals, recep-
tions, ete., of the season. She is look-
ing remarkably well, and, what is better,
has returned heart free. I was afraid
some French marquis would be at-
tracted by her dot and snatch her up.
I know that you are very sensitive on
such matters, and will not thank me for
telling you, but by the death of her
Uncle Robert in Pernambuco she has
come into possession of thirty thousand
doll:rs, which, in addition to her ex-
pectations from Papa Molineux, makes
her a very pretty heiress. As What's-
hig-name says, ‘A crisis comes once in
the life of every man.’”
There is a trite old saying in regard
to cup and lip which 1 forbear quoting,
remarking only that it is a mistake to
confide delicate porcelain to baby fin-
gers. Mr. Ward's cup would probably
never have slipped had it not been for
a baby of whose influence upon his fate
he was us yet blissfully unconscious, It
was a sorry day for him when the three
weird sisters converted Mr. Templeton
Ward's cup of happiness—which had
hitherto been as carefully guarded as
though it had been a veritable bit of
blossomed Dresden or fragile specimen
of Sevres in Pompadour rose—into a
laything for a ruthless and irresponsi-
e baby.
¥
A basket was producad, and a little
bottle. * Dear! dear!” murmured the
baby's guardian; ‘here is tho buttle,
How stupid in
Maggie to forget it!”
The baby at the sight of the bottle at
first chirruped with gleefnl excitement,
then became franticaliv impatient,
and finally burst into a roar of anger as |
the train paused a! an ount-of-the-vay
conntry station.
“I see farmhouses and cows grazing |
in the pastures,” suggested Mr, Ward;
“Perhaps I can obtain some milk for |
you."
“Oh, no, no; pray do
yourself,” replied the lady; “if you will
kindly watch the baby I can get it"
And before he had time to insist she
was out of the car and ranning toward
one of the farmhouses. Mr. Ward ex
plained the situation to the eonduetor,
who agreed to wait two minutes beyond
the usual timo for her return. Two
minutes, threes minutes, four minutes |
passed, and still she came not.
The engineer sounded the whistle, |
the conductor shonted : “All aboard! |
I can’t wait any longer. She's bad
plenty of time. I must reach the next
station before the up-train,” he ex- |
plained, and the train moved on. Mr.
J. Templeton Ward gazed in astupefied |
manner from the window; the baby |
howled. ‘Come, this will never do,” |
he said, as he endeavored simultaneously |
to realize the situation and to quiet the |
distracting baby, his thoughts and
words keeping up a running fugne some- |
what in this manner: |
Thought: * What can have detained |
her ?”
Alond:
so—"
Thought: “ Where did she disappear |
to, anyway ?”
Aloud: “—it was.
pretiy watch.”
Thought:
be"
Aloud: “ Angelic little cherab !”
Thought: *‘~ a case of desartion?”
Aloud: * Never cries —no, never.”
Thought: * Of course not. She was |
a perfect lady; impossible.” |
Aloud: * Shut up this riinute, or|
rn—" |
Thought: “ What shall I do with the
consumed —
Aloud: “—speak to you like a father.
Thought: *—thing when I get to the |
city 7”
Aloud (to old lady who offersa pep: |
perment): ‘‘ Thank you, ma'am. (To |
baby): “There, choke your blessed |
throat!”
Thought: * What a figure I'll cat at |
the depot 1” i
Alond (attempting to sing): “Oh, |
where
i
i
i
net tronble
1
“ Precions little Dimple, |
+3
Shall have the |
“Great Cmsar! Can it |
i
i
be found? Byelo, |
byelo” (shaking child violently) * go to |
sleepy.”
Thought: * Suppose Rose should be
at the station with Winifred to meet
me?”
Aloud: ‘Darling popsy-wopsy, chicka-
biddy chum! See how funny it looks
in big man's bat!” (Extingnishes it in
light-colored high hat.)
Thought: “She said a baby was the
most deligatful thing in the whole
world. Any woman who can lie like
that is capable of deserting her unpro-
tected offspring.”
Aloud (removing the hat): ‘Good
gracious! It's black in the face; its
going into convulsions !”
Thought: “I'd like fo know what
everybody is laughing at. If I had a
pistol I'd shoot somebody.”
Aloud : * Look'here, now, Miss Dimp-
sy Impsy. Come, let us reason to-
gether. This thing has got to be
stopped. Be calm—I say be calm.”
Thought: “I'll leave it in the seat,
take my baggage and put for the smok-
ing-car.” (Suits the action to the idea.
Settles himself comfortably. News
boy appears almost immediately with
the baby, still screaming.)
Newsboy : *‘ Please, sir, you left part
of your baggage.” (Train comes toa
stop in New York depot.)
hought : * There's a policeman, I'll
hand the wretch over to him, and get
him to carry it to the station -house or
shall rest
Mr. Ward had drifted into a day-
the foundling hospital,”
A few minutes later und Me, J, Tom
1 loton Wand gavly mounted the =» ops
of his brothe rein-law's brownstone man
A great incubus had been rw
moved from his mind, and he row felt
disposed to treat the adventure with
hilarity, His sister met him most eors
dially, and, throwing himself upen the
sofa by her related the
decorated with consid. rable maging
tive embroidery,
“ Think, Rose,” h
“ what a tremendd ! There
victim. Why, I aotual
for a respectable and f
ei g little widow, and was flirting
with ber in the most confiding
ner.’
“ Do you really think she meant to
baby did asked Mrs, Me li
sion
ile, he BLOYY,
o said, solemnly;
iS gscape
was a complete
Iv took her
tir
Avil
fas
o
man
desert the
neux.
“Oh, without doubt. She had got
herself up nicely on purpose to deceive
and to think that I did not suspect her
designs when she asked me if I did
not think that exeorable baby deli:
olous ™
‘ Was the baby pretty, Templeton ?"
“" Pretty ! 1 should think not 1
wish yon could have seen it. It bore
the marks of depravity stamped upon
its brow, When it howled, it glared at
me with demoniae eves, and fisted like
a prize-fighter. Iam morally certain
that its father is one of the champions
of the ring.”
“ And what did youn say you did with
it, de ar 7
“ got rid of it as quickly as possible,
I assure you. I handed it to a police.
I had the satisfaction,
however, of pinching it well before I saw
the last of it.”
“Do you suppose the man thought
“ Of course not. He has carried it ofl
to the Home of the Friendless, or the
Asvium for Little Wanderers, or some
institution of that sort, I suppose Bu
let's drop the baby, Where's Wini-
’
“I expeet her every moment. There's
the door-bell now. Let me see.”
Mrs. Molinenx motioned
servant and herself opened the hall
back the
face to face with her husband, who wore
an anxions expression. Mr. Ward, who
sat just within the parlor, heard their
conversation distinctly.
Rose. “Why, Henry, what's the
matter?"
Mr. M. “Nothing. Don't be alarmed,
only a telegram from Winifred. She
was left and will the next
train.”
Rose,
come on
“Oh! is that all? Then she
ought to be here now; the train runs
every hour.”
Mr. M. “ Winifred's all right, but I
don't won't to alarm youn. Be calm—
Rose. * The baby | "
Mr.M. “Don
i I»
i8 not sick.
"
: ' \ #
18 846 BRICK 7
excited,
rr
The
»
¢ ged
baby
‘i Is she dead
You always imag-
ant can happen, She
Rose (desperately.)
Mr. M = No, no.
is only lost.”
A piercing shriek followed and Mer.
to the hall just in tin
to see his sister faint in the arms of her
They carried her
parlor, and she was at once surrounded
by frightened In
fusion that followed Winifred Molineux
arrived. There was no time for intro-
ductious, and indeed none were needed,
for Mr. Ward to his ntter dismay recog-
18
into the
wy dso | .
domestic 3. tae con-
supposed mother of the baby,
“I was bringing Dimple home from
to her grandmother,” she ex-
plained, and added: ‘Is it possible that
you are Mr, J. Templeton Ward ? Then
the baby is safe.”
Mrs, Molineux opened hor eves, and
“Winifred,” she de-
did
‘ }
attitude.
Dimple?
“I left her to get some milk,” Wini
i
ia
passage, The woman
reach the station until the train
“Jonathan Templeton Ward,” she ex-
claimed, *‘what have you done "with
your sister's child ?”
“How was I to know it was voury?
“I had for-
gotten that Miss Winifred would be in
mourning for her uncle, and I though
“ You thought!” interrnpted his sis-
ter, ‘“The least said about that the
He sent his nieces to the found-
ling hospital; he insulted Winifred and
all of us in a manner not to be repeated.
Ob, my precious Dimple, my lovely
He told the pcliceman to drop
her into the East river,
1s not worthy of your slightest thought.
in that idiotic manner, Jonathan? I
disown you; you are not worthy to be
uncle of that chernb darling.”
He darted ont of the door,
seeking the policeman with frantic
returned to the bosom of her family.
His sister, however, refused to see him,
Miss Winifred Molineux to an officer in
the United States navy that Mr, J.
Templeton Ward finally made his peace
with his outraged relatives.
Something for Nothing,
newspapers without cost to themselves,
It is pitiable to see the shabby means
they take to attain the end they have in
view. Men who would feel insulted if
they were called dead-beats, will with
bland effrontery ask a publisher to
‘“ please mention so and 80” (an adver-
tisement), or, handing in what is really
a little item that will help yon to fill
up with.” Men who do this—and there
are some in every town— call themselves
honorable and would not think of ask-
ing a real estate owner to let them use
one of his honses a few months for
nothing; nor would they ack him to let
them cultivate and use a part of his
farm, without expecting to have to pay
rent for it,
The advertising columns of his paper
is to the publisher what the house or
farm is to the real estate owner—his
source of income, Why any one should
expect the newspaper publisher to be
more generous in squandering his sub.
stance than other business men is
something that cannot be accounted for,
except on the supposition that some
people have an idiotic idea that printers
set up type for the love of the work,
and that ink and type and printing
presses are gifts from heaven to sinful
men, who publish newspapers merely
for the purpose of smoothing the path-
way of their fellow men on the rugged
road to fortune, and who hope not for
reward this side of the grave.—Teras
Siftings.
SINGULAR SUICIDES,
Tmpelllag te Selfi=De.
Odd Methods Kms
some Odd Matives
situction and Some
played,
A glance at the files of a New York
vowspaper during 1881 discloses many
interesting worth no
from peculiarities of mode
motive. Dr. MeCreery, of Louisville,
killed himself becanss ba believed his
newly acquired appetite for liquor was
incurable; John McPherson, of Toledo,
because he had promised his wife on
her deathbed not to drink again, and
after a three days’ struggle he fouud
that he must break his vow
die; the Rev. Jacob Mallord, of
Greenville, N. J.. because afer re
forming and laboring successfully for
some months as a temperance advocate
he fell into temptation and lost his
church. Professor Louis Walter, a
pryrotechunist of St. Louis, put a nitro
glycerine cartridge on his breast and
blew himself to pieces becanse he
feared the shooting of President Gar.
fleld would spoil the Fourth of July
E. Jost, of the same
oity, read an account of a suicide, laid
down the paper, drew his pistol and
himself. Philad
]
cases of suicide
feng
or
business ; John
shot A elphian, on
being slapped in the face by his wife,
tarned white with rage, and, after
standing a moment irresolute, walked
into the next room, took down
his shotgun and killed him-
salf, At Stepney, London, 8
girl drowned herself because hergrand-
mother would not let her wear her new
clothes, and at the funeral the Spartan |
ancestress was mobbed and almost
killed. At Manchester a boy of thir
teen hanged himself from remorse at
playing truant, and at Newport, Canada,
Ferdinand Pitcher, aged ten, went and
did likewise when told to set the table
for tea. William S. Pimer, of Willi
mantic, Conn., committed
his wedding day from chagrin at not
receiving a promised remittance to defray
his expenses, Bruce Cooper, a young
lawyer of Moorehead, Ry. eld ped with
Mollie De Hart, a girl of thirteen,
whose parents had forbidden her to
marry him, and after going a few
miles advised her to return home,
and shot himself, William Ben
nett, of Denton, Ala, was threatened
with being disinherited in case he mar.
ried a servant glrl with whom he was ia
love: she refused him and he killed him-
self. At Newark, O., a rejected suitor
made a final appeal to his obdurate
sweetheart as they were driving to
gether, and when she declared she never
would consent to marry him took the
cheok-rein from the horse, went into
the woods and banged himself. At
Dallas, Tex., Mrs. C. I. Burke, of Little
Rock, having followed and overtaken
her eloping husband, put her two little
children to sleep and poisoned herself
with landapum. At Louisville Murs.
Jennie Dorsey, when her husband, after
six weeks of hapoiness, took to drinking
and gambling and left her with a board
bill of $25/unpaid, peisoned herself and
died just a few minutes before a
letter came protesting his love in
earnest terms, and announcing that he
was coming to take ber away to a new
home. At Melun, in France, Jales Roy
and Clemence Wagner tied themselves
tightly together and dropped into the
river, ng a request to the girl's
father that they might be buried in the
same grave. A young lady in South
Carolina hanged bersell bocause her
father was defeated for the legislature,
At Bechooleraft, Mich, Dr. Barnum,
who had long been suffering from a
painful diseases, laid himself on his dis- |
secting table and shot himself through
the heart, David Crimmins, of Toron-
to, jumped over Niagara Falls, leaving
a lotter declaring that he had been
forced to the act by his wife and their
clergyman. Dr. G, T. B. Read, su
geon on the bark Veronica, drowned
Suicide on |
lea vi
iCAvl
r
brain was ungettled from the effects of
an overdose of bromide, taken to re.
lieve sea-sickness. At Buntiongford,
land, a servant girl of seven.
named Miles, having been
accused taking rome
belonging her mistress,
A
ng
of
to
in running herself to
and
werself |
Hohemolsen, in
race to the end”
into the river. At
a curtain
Hugh Brandt, of Cohoes, having
118
of water, A negro
saw in full operation, and had his head
split through instantly, A woman in
ing her face in a basin of water, and a
tied the mouth of the sack closely round |
his neck and jumped intoapond AtSan
Saber, Tex , Li, B. Chapman, fearing a ro- |
a prisoner in the jail, choked himself by
Mrs. J. 8. Boyd |
Captain Fritz, of San Francisco, |
and his wrists handcuffed, but his wife |
explained that she had frequently
resist the temptation to go out and |
spend the night with political workers,
3efore shooting herself, Josie Lange. |
let, of St. Louis, pnt on an elabo- |
rately embroidered wrapper, arranged |
her hair becomingly and seated her |
self in a graceful position on a
lounge. Before hanging himself Leoni-
das Robertson, of Madison, Ind., put |
on his wife's clothes and sunbonnet.
George Wiggins, of Port Washington,
fastened it to a fence, tied strings to |
the triggers and walked backward till
he was about ten yards away, when
with a sharp pull he brought both
charges into his head and body, rid-
dling himself from the waist upward. |
M. Anderwert, president of the Swiss
confederation, shot himself on the
promenade at Geneva on Christmas day,
1880, General Uchatius, the Austrian |
inventor of the *‘Uchatins gun-metal,” |
being nettled at the failure of one
of his guns, blew out his brains,
A Hindoo priest at Ahmedabad, who |
for twelve years had made a prac-
tice of praying two hours daily at
noon, gazing intently at the sun all the
while, paid off’ his debts, composed and
sang a hymn of praise and then as-
cended a pyre of his own building and
setting fire to it burned himself to
death, William Newkim, a Chinese
theological student at Marietta, O.,
poisoned himself with chloroform
through being worried over his love af-
fairs. At Fishkill Landing Mr. Saun-
der's old horse drowned himself in the
Hudson, in shallow water, after having
been once brought in when heattempted
to swim out into the river with mani-
fest suicidal intentions.
Fables from Bret Harte's New Book,
THE KIND-HEARTED SHE ELEPHANT,
A kind-hearted Bhe-Elephant, while
walking through the jungle where the
apiey breezes blow soft o'er ylon's
whieh she erushed to death within a
fow inches of the nest containing its
callow brood “Poor little things ™
said the generous Mammoth, “I have
been a mother myself, and my affection
sball atone for the fatal consequences
of my neglect,” So saying, sat
down upon the orphaned birds,
Moral, ~The above teaches us what
home is without a mother ; also, that it
ia not every person who should be in
trusted with the care of an orphan
asylum,
she
THE PRUDENT TIGER,
A prudent Tiger having observed a
procession bearing the remains of a
sainted Brahmin to the tomb, communi.
cated the intelligence to his wile, who
said, “My dear, wo are almost out of
meat, and thongh the deceased, from
the austerities of his pious life, was in
poor condition, I make no doubt that
among his surviving friends we may en
counter others more succulent.”
“Miserable Tigress,” exclaimed her
lord, * cannot you see that if we permit
the deceased to be ecannonised, pil-
grimages will be instituted to his tomb,
and the producer and consumer will be
bronght together in accordance with
the true principles of political econo.
my? Rather let us, then, offer a chro.
mo for each new pilgrim.” This
advice being followed the
Iiger enjoyed a free breakfast table to
the end of his days,
Moral, ~ Beware of breaking the egg
that hatches the golden goose.
THE LAME,
A Wolf one day, drinking from a ran
ping stream, observed a lamb also
drinking from the same stream, at some
distance from him,
#1 have yet to learn,”
addressing the Lamb
serverity, ‘‘what right
muddy the stresm fro
drinking.”
“Your premises are incorrect,” re
plied the Lamb, with bland politeness,
“for if you will take the trouble to ex-
amice the current critically, you will
observe that it flows from you to me,
and that my distorbance of sediment
here would be, so far as you are oon-
cerned, entirely local
“Possibly you are right," returned
the Wolf: ** but, if 1 am not mistaken,
you are the person who, two Years ago,
used some influence against me at the
University."
“Impossible,” replied the
Hiwo years ago I was not born.”
“Ah, well” added the Wolf, com-
posedly, “I am wrong again; but it must
WOLF AND THE
said the Woll,
with dignified
yon have to
which I am
m
Lamb ;
EF
i
has listened to this conversation that I
am altogether insane, and consequently
not responsible for my Actions.”
With this remark he at once dis-
patched the Lamb, and was trium-
phantly Acquitted.
Monar.—This fable teaches us how
erroneous may be the popular impres-
sion in regard to the distribution of
alluvinm, and the formation of river
deltas,
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How Comets Affect the Earth,
The following extract is from the
prize essay on comets, won by Professer
Boss, of Albany: The inflnence ol
comets npon the earth is in all proba
bility insignificant. They may, like
the sun, affect the earth's magnetic
condition, and thus Boma
extent, possibly, its meteorology. No
such effect has ever been perceived. In
spite of some chance coincidences be-
tween the apparitions of great comets
and remarkable public events, no well
informed person now believes that there
is avy real connection between them.
}v & liberal and credulous interpreta-
tion of any frequently ocenrring oeles-
tial phenomenon, similar coincidences
conld be shown.
to
teoric bodies, which impinge upon the
earth's atmosphere, there is some dircet
though probably minute effect. Bome
have thonght that a sensible portion of
the heat when the earth receives it is
generated in this way; but the weight
of eeientific opinion seems to be against
that hypothesis. The impact of the
meteors upon our atmosphere must add
some maiter fo it, and this is probably
This must be the
origin of the so called cosmic dust,
which has been collected at sea in re
cent times. The flcer particles of it
may have some influence on clond for
mations, and other meteorological phe-
{ure,
A more remote effect may be sought
in the possible fall of meteors and com
ets npon the surface of the sun. Owing
upon the sun's heat is quite insignifi-
It is now generally admitted
that we mast look for the origin of the
sun's heat in a constant, though to us,
imperceptible shrinkage of his vast
bulk,
Some connection between the
quency of sun spots and comets has
been rather vaguely suspected Were
equal persistence for a
whetner comets cause the
tends in some way to render comets
proposition.
Finally, it may be said, with all due
respect to scientific decorum, that the
appearance of a great comet
of mankind and directs their thoughts
to the more particular contemplation of
the glorious universe which surrounds
them.
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Where the Money Went,
housewife, considered that the straw
bedtick would be about as safe a hiding
place as she could find for the wealth.
Accordingly she placed the roll of bills
among the straw. The money not being
needed for any purpose it was forgotten
until several weeks after the house had
been cleaned, when Mr, Sands inquired
of his wife if she had that money. The
thought came to her at once that she
had emptied the straw-bed in the
orchard, and of course the roll of bills
had been dumped out too, A visit to
the orchard showed that the swine and
poultry had been very industrious
there, and ten and twenty-dollar bills
were found scattered by the wind and
torn by the aforesaid farm stock. Oare-
ful search brought back about £230,
leaving seventy dollars as the price of
the carelessness. Mr. Sands does not
put his money in straw-ticks any more.
Women are not eruel by nature. We
never heard of one thoughtless enough
o step on a mouse,
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WISE WORDS,
people should be good-natured.
A man who sits down on the road to
success and waits for a free ride is sure
to get left,
ence of your work by the trouble it has
cost you.
To do good to our enemies is to re
semble the incense whose aroma per-
fumes the fire by which it is consumed,
A head properly constituted ean ac.
commodate it-« { © whatever pillows
the vieissitndes of fortune may place
under it,
When bad men combine the good
must associate, else they will fall, one
by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a con-
temptible struggle.
To succeed in any of life's endeavors,
quire perseverance, decision and tense-
ity of will to reach the full measure of |
He who is always in want of some
thing cannot be very rich. He is ai
poor wit who lives by borrowing the
words, decisions, mien, inventions and
actions of others,
Every one in this world has his or her |
share of troubles and trials. Let us!
then try as much as we are able not to
increase the burden of any by as much
as the weight of a straw.
Socially, politically and religiously
the civilized world is in a terribly un-
settled condition, Everything appears
to be in a state of unrest. There seems
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Country Life in Italy.
A lady living in a country village in
Italy writes, in the Cornhill Magazine,
of her neighbors and their habits, She
It is amazing how smart the very
poorest lady who has any pretentious
to being such will turn out on occa-
however dilapidated her home
attire, Two young ladies belonging to
an old but utterly ruined family, whosa
parents were too poor to keepa servant,
would dress themselves for their even.
ing walk in the most fashionable hats
and costumes, with their fans, smelling
bottles, lace handkerchiefs and gloves,
all complete. Ia order to obtain these
dresses the young ladies had to con-
descend so far as to work for the veas-
ants, who paid them for the
manufacture of the smart stays
and chemises they wear on
days. The attempts :t being
Iv fashionable, combined with an en-
tire ignorance of the ways of the
fashionable world, produce sometimee
he strangest incongruities, The lacs
veil is now almost confined to the class
called * artisti"—that is, shopkeepers
and skilled workpeople; but a few of
the old-fashioned ladies still keep to it,
Curious specimens of decayed nobility
are to be found in these remote villages
— people bearing grand names and re-
taining considerable pride in their an.
cient lineage, whom generations of idle- |
ness and unthriftiness have reduced to
extrema poverty. They are not
edneated for any profession, and
when starvation stares them inv
faco they have no resource
but to earn their bread by manual labor.
One noble count of my sequaintance is
a carpenter ; another a bricklayer. 1
have seen the granddaughters of a
With
manners deteri-
foast
high-
their fortunes, their
pride remains to distinguish them from
the peasants between whose class and
theirs so great a gulf was once fixed, I
remember nothing more melancholy
than the assemblage of these poverty-
stricken nobles 1 once met at the
house of the rich man of a village.
We were at supper; and as one!
ragged and diriy old man after
another came shambling in, each
in turn was, fo my great sur
prise, introduced as the descendant ef
f
—opduto”—added my host, with a
The old man |
would then bow his head in melan-
choly acquiescence, and casting a rneful
glance at his shabby cloak with the
faded green lining, would slink into a
chair at the far end of the table. One
bouse-painting, we thought it only |
charitable to employ for the decoration
of our ceiling. I was prepared to feel
un-
en-
; but
dirty,
and to be
his artistic genius
uncommonly
nobleman,
was 80
from those of a peasant, that
actly come up to my ideal, although it
was ambitions enough. A basket of
flowers soon sdorned each corner of our
amid
a rather
In the middie of the work the artist,
and whose
feelings wera sensitive, took offense {as
wo supposed) at some unintentional
leg and
Poor
Cupid !
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Pots and Pans,
Utensils for boiling purposes have
undergone little moditication in shape
The reason for this is not far to |
Water heated in a round
with upright sides would |
boil over, whereas when
treated in a pot whose sides incline
inward toward the top, the bubbling
day.
vessel
| themselves in conflict with each other.
| Thus (the ealdron, kettle and saucepan
| have in all ages and in all nations much |
| similarity in form. With regard to
| material, no doubt the earliest pots and
pans consisted of such natural objects
as adapted themselves to the require
ments of cooking, as the gourd, pipkin,
cocoanut shell, ete, and among savage
tribes these are still employed for the |
| purpose. In course of time vessels of |
olay came into service, and afterward |
metal was brought into requisition. |
The old Egyptians had pots precisely |
like the modern saucepan, and their |
larger utensils were furnished with ho |
well-known ears and feet which may
even yet be seen in some of the home-
steads of our country. Shakespeare
makes the * secret, black and midnight
hags ” in Macbeth use acaldron of this
description, and it will be remembered
that thesavory mess with which the more
respectable Meg Merrilles appeased
the hunger of worthy Dominie Samp-
son was dished from a like vessel. That
these articles were common in China
in dim antiquity, snd that the Chinese
had a superior method of mending them,
can surprise no one, and is what we have
expected to find in a people who'seem to
have forestalled nearly every invention,
great and small, that was ordinarily sup-
posed tu have first seen the light in
other lands than theirs.— Tomas J.
Bowduwiteh,
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FOR THE LADIES,
Homely Weddings,
I have attended all sorts of weddings |
in my time the wedding of a king and |
queen: of aprinesand princess; of lords |
and ladies; of Hebrews, with their quaint |
ceremonies; of gypsies in the fields; of |
borderers in the far West, when | held |
one end of the broomstick; of negroes |
down Bouth; of Tom Thumb and tiny
Miss Warren, weddings in cathedrals, |
churches, chapels, meeting houses; |
weddings before the mayor, justices of
the peace and aldermen; weddings by |
cardinals, divines, priests and presch-
ers—but to me the most impressive
ceremony is the family wedding in the
front parlor of the family homestead,
when the father and the mother of the
bride are present to give her away, and
the father and mother of the groom to
receive her into her new relationship, |
and the little room is overcrowded with |
ether, and everybody kisses the bride,
erying—beoomes gemeral, and even
such an outsider as myself comes in for
a share of the sweetest things in the!
por —I do not mean the bride cake, |
"or others the march down the aisle, |
the massive music of the organ, the |
long train of bridemaids, the dress pa- |
vice. It is only a matter of taste, but |
I prefer the homely wedding that gives |
promise of a loving and lovely home
thereafter. New York Star,
Ante-Nuptinl Dinners,
Among the latest of society customs,
says the American Queen, which bid fair
to secure a permsnent stronghold
among us is that of the ante-nuptial
bachelor dinner, given by an expectant |
bridegroom to his ushers and intimate |
friends as a farewell to his bachelor |
life. The young lady is generally con- |
termine beforehand, a thing never!
known certainly before theintroduoction
of this custom, whether the house of
the aforesaid friend will be a closed or
open one to them after his marriage, or
if they be not invited the almost sure
presumption is that they have not
found favor in the lady's eves. The!
dinner is generally appointed for the
week preceding the marriage. If the
gentleman be not blessed with the
sbundant means without which the
fashionable caterers are only a delusion
and a snare, it is permissible for him to
give his farewell dinner in his own
house, and in this case the number of
guests is generally somewhat smaller,
sometimes only comprising the best’
man and groomsmen, These are usually
five in all, although in large weddings
there sometimes are ac many as seven
or nine, Twenty is considered a good |
number of guests, and this quota at-
tended the farewell dinners of George |
Merritt and Dr. Beward Webb this |
BOason.,
Fashion Fancles,
Peacock fans are 1n high favor.
Chenille [ringes are mnch worn.
Jerseys are revived on the other side,
Watered wilk grows more and more
fashionable.
Fashionable dancing dresses, all, have |
short skirts.
Esthetic dress grows more and more |
in favor in England.
Plush is more fashionable as a lining |
for wraps than for tho outside.
Jinck remains the choice color for the |
costliest and most elegant wraps, !
Pale rose and cream white are the |
favorite colors for fine wool evening |
dresses,
Fringes of silver and pearl beads
mixed are used for trimming evening |
dresses.
Artificial flower garnitures are de
rigner with all gauzy and semi-diapha-
nous ball toilets.
Tan-colored Jong gloves with loose |
wrists are worn on all sorts of occasions |
and with any kind of a dress. |
Black lace and fine jet ave the ap- |
yroved trimmings for the handsomest |
Pluck satin dresses for evening wear. |
White, or pale bine, or rose-tinted
Chudda shawls make lovely evening!
wraps when furlined ones are not
needed.
The newest and most striking mate- |
rial in Paris for whole costumes is
watered silk with a floristed damask |
pattern,
Detachable trains fastening below the |
short bounffant back draperies come |
with some of the handsomest late im- |
portations. |
Court trains of great length, detach.
able and fastening on at the shoulders,
come with the richest and costliest
evening robes,
Silver gray silk trimmed with silver
moire and steel and silver bead em- |
broideries, is a much admired combina-
tion for light mourning.
Among fashionable shades are nas- |
turtium, dead leaf, old green, all dark
copied from the inside of a ripe melon. |
Tinted Roman pearls are much worn |
with full evening dress. Greek neck-
laces are also worn, made of s.veral
rows of pearls linked together at inter-
vals by small diamond clasps.
Satin boots, with velvet tops, Span-
ish insteps snd Chinese toes, and
fastened with tiny jeweled buttons, are
worn with handsome dinner or evening |
toilets of satin and velvet.
Sn 5.
A Remarkable Gun,
In the late war between Chili and |
Peru a curious accident befell an eight.
inch Armstrong gun on board the Chil-
ian warship Angamos, The last time |
it was fired, the gun which was on |
deck slipped ont of the trunnion ring,
flow backward across the ship and
leaped into the sea. This was the singu-
lar ond of a rather remarkable history. |
The gun was supplied to the Chilians |
before the war by Sir William Arm-
The Angamos was pre- |
viously an Irish pig-boat, and was ac- |
quired by Chili for the purpose of car- |
eying this one gun, which, standing off |
at long ranges of 10,000 yards or so, |
she could do with impunity. The Peru. |
vians at length sent out their fleet of |
gunboats to destroy this waspish an-
tagonist, when the other Chilian ships,
with their short rangers, came into
action and drew off the guuboats, all |
but one, which was sent to engage the
Angamos at close quarters. The Arm-
strong gun, however, sent a shower of
Shrapnel bullets on to her decks and
the gunboat retreated. As she was
nearing port, a pot shot from the eight-
inch gun, fired at long range and high
elevation, managed to hit and sink her.
The gun therefore did plenty of hard
work and valuable service beiore it
finally gave way and was lost in the
sea.
Thirteen female physicians are prac-
ticing in Clayton, la. and at a recent
fire there were not well men enough in
the town to run the engine ont. [t is
one grand incorporated hospital.
ATS HU
SUNDAY READING,
The Mote and the Beam,
. We notice in an exchange a short an,
eodote with a point to it. A lady, on
one occasion, upon examining a room
whieh had not long before been put in
order, complained to the servant that
it was dusty. The latter said, respect.
fully, “The dust is on your glasses,”
and sure enough, when they had been
removed aud carefully , the room
put on quite another aspect How very
made of such an anecdote, and vet it is
We see it in our Lord's
Objects change sccording to
there are many like them —takes its hue
from the tree it happens to be on. The
often but the fly upon the glass of the
telescope, There is much wisdom in
the exhortation to be slow to speak and
“ What's done we partly may com
But not be eB pant L. pln,
Religious Intelligence,
It is proposed to establish at Little
Rock, Ark., a college for young men and
women under the control of the Metho-
One of the Jewish congregations in
New York city has decided that here- |
after men shall remove their hats in
In Boston, with a population of 108,-
16,803 attended in the
morning and 18,634 in the evening,
The Rev. 8. W. Hasti Rose, of
Michigan, has been elcoted thworth
lecturer on Congregationalism st An-
dover Theological seminary for the en-
suing three years,
The Presbytery of Oregon contained
at the close of the church year twenty-
then three new churches have been |
organized, with 1,120 members.
The papal eollege of cardinals now
has thirty-six Italians, seven Austrians,
six French, five Spanish, three Euglish,
Belgian, one American, one Armenian,
The stipend of Protestant ministers |
in Germany is so small that they are
obliged to raise additional sums by
charging fees for baptisms and mar. |
riages whenever celebrated at a private |
house or with special ceremony.
The Missouri Baptist convention re- |
ports in that Slate: Beventy associs-
tions, of which four are colored 1,445
churches, including 149 colored; 920
ministers, of whom seventy-nine are
colored, and 89,915 members, whereof
The Lutherische Kalendar for 1882
for 1880 of 87,884 The synodical
conference has 206,587, the general
124.734, the general synod
the general council
226,606. There are, besides, ten inde-
pendent synods, with 111,862 commu- |
Acocrding to the most recent statis
ties the Roman Catholics have in Chins
664 Earopean and
559 native priests, thirty-four colleges,
convents, and 1002818
Catholie population. The whole num- |
about one-fiftieth of the Catholic popu-
lation, and the number of European
riests is twice as large as that of the
rotestant ordained missionaries,
Stories About Blind Men.
Three men, two of them blind, were
drinking together one night in the
And as is
too often the result of such convivial
meetings, one of the blind men guar-
eled and came to blows with the man
who conld see. Here was likely to be
a battle not by any means on equal
terms. But the other blind man was
equal to the occasion. That the man
who could see should have no undue
advautage over his less fortunate oppo-
pent, up jumped the blind friend and
turned off the gas, and so they pum-
meled each other in a harmless way
fora time. We have given an illustra-
offset we could give many illustrations
of that gentler passion, love, for the
blind are eminent disciples of Cupid
As a rule a res le
blind man has no difficulty in obtainin
a seeing wife, and very often with gocc
looks to boot. And when we consider
of the blind the latter isnot to be won-
Blind men, however, do not
always marry wives who sce. We know
of many instances in which both hue-
band and wife are blind and have
managed to raise families without the
occurenca of any serious mishap either
the cases are rare in which the latter
are defective in sight. Only lstely
the marriage took place of a blind
she being his second wife, and he, her
third blind husband. The marriage
was not wanting in the elements of
romance, for in their young days they
had courted and parted, blind in a
double sense, We will conclude with
a courtship, but in this case will not
vouch for its truth. A blind man on
several oecasions met a widow, who was
not, however, like himself, blind, and
latterly concluded that she would make
Accordingly, one evening
found him at the widow's house for
Bat so elated was he wi
his success that, on leaving her door,
he forgot he was up a flight of stairs,
The staircase window being very low.
and happening to be open, he felt the
on his heated brow, stepped
out without thinking where he was,
and so fell into the court below. The
greatly » larmed. but was ally reassured
that nc boues were Lrok.n by his re-
mark: © Maggie, ye hae a big step to
your door!" — Chambers’ Journal.
Strength of the Egyptian Moth,
You are sitting at dinner with all
your doors open, and suddenly yon
hear a familiar sound, and a beetle is
wheeling ** his droning flight” around
the room. Flop! he falls on the table
half stunned. You seize him &nd are
amazed at the strength of his struggles,
ard still farther at the squeak he utters,
showing that he must have vocal organs
—like the death's-head moth, which
squeaks loudly when touched. Exam-
ine him, and you will find that he is
the Egyptian scarab, varying in size
from half an inch to an inch and a balf
long, and relatively, I believe, the most
werful animal in the world. Take an
nch specimen and place him on
the tablecloth under a full quart
bottle of wine or beer. Present]
you will see the bottle move, and if
unchecked it will slide mysteriously
across the table, pushed by the gaint
beneath in its efforts to escape.—
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aged man is defeated in advance.
carries failure about with him; he
when he needs most to be
falters where decision is most
he halts where he ought to
ward; he cannot stand up
strain and burden of the
hard that it should be so—bharder
that so little real
discouragement.
need such a man, and has
for him; and so he falls into r
of the while he of
hope, who is yet new in the stru
who has not supped the bitter
disappointment and found out
is vanity and vexation, strides
where the
tried man i
contagious in a t,
getic spirit, which carries
come in contact with it away, and &
cess ia as often the result of this si
animal force as of perseverance
tinued effort. All the experience in tk
aworld will not carry the man of dee
iscouragement successfully through s
enterprise. -
Esteems.
Many persons who earnestly
for apyroval are forever )
take of hiumng. that they ong
take © i oug
have what they intensely desire. N
ing is ever gained im this way. No
ever grew rich or or su
in any act or schievement; so n
ever goived fhe esteem of ha
men mere wishing -
ever o tly, He must acg
right to be esteemed before
reasonably hope to be so. |
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shall command respect; he
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to the Fein of those whose
worth having The direct e
weak-minded persons make